Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-06-07
2011, ApJ, 735, L31
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
13 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
In the symbiotic (or WD+RG) channel of the single degenerate scenario for type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) the explosions occur a relatively long time after star formation. The birthrate from this channel would be too low to account for all observed SNe Ia were it not for some mechanism to enhance the rate of accretion on to the white dwarf. A tidally enhanced stellar wind, of the type which has been postulated to explain many phenomena related to giant star evolution in binary systems, can do this. Compared to mass-stripping this model extends the space of SNe Ia progenitors to longer orbital periods and hence increases the birthrate to about $0.0069\,{\rm yr^{-1}}$ for the symbiotic channel. Two symbiotic stars, T CrB and RS Oph, considered to be the most likely progenitors of SNe Ia through the symbiotic channel, are well inside the period--companion mass space predicted by our models.
Chen Xuefei
Han Zhanwen
Tout Christopher A.
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